Ep. 3: A Case for Being "Unoffendable"

M Is for Mama Podcast

Abbie Halberstadt

Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In a world where hyper-sensitivity to even a whiff of offense permeates many social interactions--both in person and online--the Bible calls us to something radical: overlooking offense (being what I term "unoffendable" in this episode). This is not a case for "stuffing emotions" or "ignoring wrongdoing" but rather looking for ways to be an overcomer in Christ rather than a victim of our circumstances or others' unkindness--an invaluable skill not only in motherhood but in every area of our lives!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the MS-Mama Podcast. I'm your host Abby Halberstadt
0:08.7	happy wife, Mama 2-10 Bible Believing Christian. On today's show I wanted to talk to you about the concept
0:15.1	of being unoffendable. Now before I delve into what I mean by that I want to
0:21.6	address the fact that as women as wives as mothers as friends
0:26.0	this is something that I really feel like could be a game changer for the way that
0:30.6	we view people's motivations and how they speak to us and how they treat us.
0:35.0	And it's also, as I'm going to show you, really rooted in scripture.
0:40.0	This is not just an opinion that I have, but something that that the Bible exhorts us over and over again that we are to strive for.
0:47.0	So when I say unoffendable, what do I mean by that?
0:49.8	Do I mean simply that we are to keep our feelings buried, that we are to suppress things, that if someone
0:55.7	hurts our feelings, that we are to hide it, or to pretend like nothing ever happened.
1:02.0	And the answer is absolutely not. Unachriev not unequivocally no and the Bible never
1:04.6	tells us to do that in fact if we are offended if we do get our feelings hurt if someone does
1:09.6	wrongness the Bible actually gives us a guideline, a set of rules or ways to reconcile with that person.
1:18.2	And so I think that the Lord knows that we are not robots, we have emotions emotions we are going to struggle with
1:26.3	Hormones. We're going to struggle with something that bothers us at a certain time of the month not even phasingasing us at another time, if you know what I mean.
1:34.2	And so when we examine this concept of being unoffendable, of being difficult to offend at the very least,
1:42.2	I don't simply mean that we push down or shunt
1:46.5	aside the ability to feel. The thing about offense is that it's often based in pride. Most of the time that we get
1:56.2	truly offended it's because someone has said something that is hurt and
1:59.5	image that we have of ourselves that is better than the reflection that we see in our friends
2:05.0	comment or maybe even just a troll, a social media trolls DM that they send you. Now I will say that I have a more
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